Washington Independent Review of Books

An historian and professor of African American Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Ethelene Whitmire is also the author of The Remarkable Life of Reed Peggram: The Man Who Stared Down World War II in the Name of Love. The book, says Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer...

For a decade, beginning in the late 1950s, the exploits of the photogenic George Lincoln Rockwell made headlines in the country’s newspapers and magazines and on television and radio. Among those spewing hate against Jews and Blacks, he was a far-right celebrity whose goal was to make America a white, Christian nation, with him as führer.

But while Rockwell could gene...

With The Other Beautiful People, Caroline Bock isn’t the first author to shine a spotlight on the entertainment industry. But instead of steering our gaze toward the glamorous, Hollywood-based, and yes, beautiful people most readers are all too familiar with, she asks u...

The Winter Warriors: A Novel by Olivier Norek (Atlantic Monthly Press). Reviewed by Lawrence De Maria. “All of these people were real, and the internet makes it easy to find out what happened to them. But...

Tomorrow, my novel is officially on sale. The Other Beautiful People: A workplace love story. Or, at least, that’s the elevator pitch. But it’s much more than that. At its heart, it’s about the tension between work and family...